The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 16, 1929, Page 2

Page 'Iwa “ - DAILY WORKER NEW YORK, TUESDAY, APRIL 16, 1929 “Discover” Thousands of Oil Frauds; Timely Check to the Rivals of Rockefeller WILBUR EXPOSES HIS OWN DEPT. TO AID JOHN D, 34,000 Permits Issued; | Only 56 Worked On WASHINGTON, April Although 34,000 pect have be permits oil and Capt, Ne ish imperialist officials in 1 al from Barbados. The guns over South America and wi on pu during 56 of them have ton Lancaster, Briti i flier try to outdo the Yankee British Imperialist Surveys Colonies am sens 1 MORE MILLS "INN. GAROLINA OUT ON STRIKE Soldiers Are Massing; Relief Badly Needed (Continued from Page One) the textile prod ssion of tl h war ace, being greeted by the nidad, British West Ii will carry the menace of Br me mill is owned by a | (Continued from Page One) Congregation m Tenements Cc. A. Hunt, led by Harlem Church Exploits Tis ° "tien csowine vas. While hundreds and thousands of h Carolina workers are ional Textile Workers strategy is to int arrests, and use e b keep your nose well | atcana ai ae cov garbage is piled as “ iI ag oat amas AO e nas 8 high as the second and third stories cook, he has servants. The church, teatare it Sa 1 tive of the International Labor De- ae this property, keeps | 0° time it ho is also active as one of Hooy condition. epee de d to suppre: ht create ix-story tenements, where workers nd that would re-} : fixed by the Rocke.| live, some of whom listen to their ctual drilling oper-| !andiord’s sermons on Sundays, and appressed, and to| See if the church is a softer land- iver up i to the Standard| lord than the capitalist and the poli- Qil, the Department of Interior | tician. now discovers what was known all| Rats and Cats. along, that there is much fraudu-} Pate umcet rats, rats, as s cats, and cats bigger than usual cats, is the keynote of t ; block. Rats because the building i lent oil stock in the et. ARMS CONEAB IS ADMITTED FAKE Tories Want Election; ye. Points; U. S. Silent GENEV. eight n. |dumbwaiter service, because fi April 14.— Twenty-) more reliable. ions are gathered here to| discuss “disarmament,” with little possibility of even a formal agreement being adopted, and the imperialist 1 United and Great Brittin, are man- euvering for the angel wings and, halo required by pacifist appearance. | Cats Row.” A Disappointed Cat. “Rats ran me out of here one night,” said A. Fuller, living on the ‘om the So-| and got myself a cat. It used to be as an al- WM} t a you would be sitting here in this room you could see the rats chasing across the hall out there.” As he spoke, his fat black cat, suddenly dashed across the room and headed down the hall. The rat must proposals, a fla’ per cent reduc- tion of presert world armaments. This proposal is certain to meet the fate of its predecessors. mans The Ger- thru Count Von Bernstorff d provosals for greater But come along to this row of Cats, big and bulky from much \rat-meat, because traps don’t catch ; the rats fast enough and cats are > to! You can call this block belonging ery! to St. Philip’s Church “Rats and fourth floor at 111, “so I went out} so before I got my cat that when} | gas-lighted, inadequately heated and in a state of decay, because the walls! swarming with rats. e rotten from defective plumb- ing, because ceilings fall and plas- {ter is loose, because there is no the loors are coming apart, because the apartments have not been renovated | nothing but a money box in which for Church. St. Philip’s as landlord will not disappoint you. You will find everything to be expected from a ndlord. No renovations have been made since 1925, and none will be made unless the tenants agree to pay a rent raise. The rents for old tenants are from $32 to $35 for four rooms, which} re poorly ventilated, dilapidated, a by Major y in command of troops here, when he tried to find out the name of a striker arrested. Delly took a look at the credentials from the I.L.D. presented by Reeves, then flew into a rage and called Reeve an enemy of the government. |The telegrammed credentials re- ferred to the “heroic fight of the exploited textile workers in the face of employers and troops.” Raid Relief Office. The troops and police Saturday raided and searched the strike head- quarters and relief station looking for the relief director. Manville-Jenckes company of- ficials arrived Sunday with a load of armed thugs to be used to try to break the strike in their mills here. The case of one of the strikers named Styles, charged with assault, which was to come up in court to- More Money The tenants have been raised over the rent they originally paid and further raises are now being de- manded. St. Philip’s Church will no doubt be respectable and de- corous enough to wait until May 81st when the Emergency Rent Laws ex- pire, to pull over a wholesale rent- raise, It also demands its rent on time. Fuller relates how when his rent| day has been continued. was three days late the church’s| Under arrest and awaiting trial lawyer was sent to collect it. dees great variety of framed-up | charges of assault, parading, resist- The Money-Box. ing officials, etc. are: Mrs. C. R. * Si | Thomas, C. R. Thomas, K. Hend- T Saemer te an aie Hee et cles; Phil Land, Bertha Thompkins, tions, preaches “good-will among | Henry. eolvel te ol Bradley, and cian” andi Cuenca on earth,” tt J. Hunter, all pickets arrested at preaches this creed to workers who the orders of the employers. it exploits in its own tenements. The pulpit from which the Rev'd Co-Operators’ Week Bishop and the older Bishop talks is | in Detroit Mich to % "9 Be Held May 4 to 12 DETROIT, April 15.—Saturday, is collected the coins, sweated out and lived out by the tenants on “Rats and Cats Row.” | The landlord, you see, can be a | May 4, to Sunday, May 12, has been |Abandon Attempt at | Big Disolay at Grave of War Maker Herrick Ohio, April 15.-- ally-hoo” over the Herrick E to arous big working signally f in Clevel and only a held, Lind- s first steps Turner; | Misleader of | British Mill Workers, Ts Meek Before Bosses (By Mail). — When of England ge cut, Ben of the National Increase U. S. Steel Stock $346,679,000 Stockholders of United States Steel Corporation yesterday unani- mously voted to increase the author-/ ized common stock of the corpora- tion from 7,533,210 shares to 12,- 500,000 shares, the funds realized from sales of additional stock to be used to retire the company’s bonded indebtedness. The action increased total author- ized capitalization of the corpora- (tion from $1,303,321,000 to $1,650,-| 000,000, an increase of $346,679,000. DEMAND 5-DAY WEEK. | | DAVENPORT, Iowa, (By Mail).| Building trades workers Tri-Cities, mand a five-day week, | _ of the wili fool farmers into believing that who are organized, de-'(he campaign promises for adequate CONGRESSOPENS: “Over the Top for Daily” Is WILL HEAR PLANS |Slogan of Militant Workers OF HOOVER TODAY in Huge Subscription Drive ProvideRich Patronage by Fake Relief Bill which ion toda: Ju how clo: congress will fclow Hoover's tructions for on and a short ses- limited le; ate finished its routine minutes under the President Curtis. Bill Intreduced. The House took two hcurs, but it might have been longer had not {Speaker Longworth, re-elected for- | oken all pre vorn in the 402 members ent as a body instead of in gr . ‘the new farm relief bill was intro- duced there today. The senate com- mittee has not completed its meas- | ure. a Ae About 800 bilis of every descrip- tion, ranging from demands for {m- peachment of a federal judge to a measure making it a federal offense to use lead slugs in automatic vend- ing machines were introduced in the house today. The house agriculture committee’s bill for farm relief was one of the first decuments tossed into the hopper on the speaker’s desk. Chair- axon Haugen, Rep. Iowa, intro- duced the administration’s fake “re- lief” measure, which it is hoped relief have been kept. Gastonia Strikers Drive Bosses’ Press Liar Out e | The attitude of the militant North Carolina ; th» state, which is completely dom- |inated by the great Duke family power and tobacco interests, the tex- | tile barons, and the open-shop rail-| roads, is shown by the following in- | cident reported by a correspondent | of the Charlotte Observer. | | After describing the fine work of | ward the yellow capitalist press of | F PAT TOOHEY Lewis Thugs Break 2) Meetings in W. Va. ¢¢yNCREASE the bundle of Daily Workers daily—we are preparing an ext thruout the district.” to 50 copies ensive subscription drive This is from a letter the Daily Worker agent in Sa ave received from M. Daniels, n T'rancisco. “The campaign is already under way,” the letter con- tinues. “Every unit is working hard to reach its quota, Special leaflets are being distributed among the workers in the factories.” One of the most effective plans in the campaign.to double the number of subscrikers t othe Daily Worker has been found by the San Francisco workers to be the organ‘zation of special teams to ad the Daily among the workers, and special teams for subscriptions, May Day greetings, etc. The quotas for the Cal 3 are: Subscriptions Los Angele: San Francisco .. Oakland Santa Clara The California district has shown its determination to go over the top in the campaign to double the number of Daily Worker readers. It is up to the class-conscious workers thru- out the country to pitch in, in order to bring their district over the top for the Daily. German Seamen Call —Militant German seamen who ar- rived in Aberdeen distributed pam: |phlets among the Scot and English | seamen cali r idari ii , ake een aaee a SoUmeely vite The men are organized. Since May, pamphlets were welcomed by the | 1{25, the wages of the strikers have seamen here, 'Granite Workers in Cornwall, England on Strike for Pay Raise LONDON, By Mail)—Over 500 maccns engaged in the Cornish gra- nite industry are on strike for a wage increase of two pence an hour. on Scot Sailors to Stand by Soviet Union ABERDEEN, Scotland, (By Mail) been one shilling, 4 pence an hour. SEND GREETINGS to armaments and partial in reserve forces and ‘timi- 8 of the use of such weapons as tanks and long range guns, These proposals also will never be adopted. GRAVE DIGGER DIES AT WORK. Mii ee (By Mail)—While at ging a grave in the Forest Home Cemetery, Stanley Kujawell, 55, fell dead. Death was due to o~er exertion. Imperinlism ix, at the same time the most stitute and the ultim= ate form of the State power which mascent middle soctety had commenced te as a means of itn own ¢ ion from feud- -crown bour- oh had. finally trans- into a means for the en- vement of labor by capital. — have escaped for the cat looked dis- appointed when it came back. “We once caught 30 rats at one time in a large cage in the hall,” said Mrs, Williams, living at 125. “The rats terrorize you here. I once opened that ¢-mbwaiter door and saw a rat on the rope staring at me.” Dumbwaiter Stench. That is enough to give you an idea of the condition of this property owned by the church, The dumb- waiter has not worked for six years, the bells have been useless for even a longer time, garbage must be thrown down the dumbwaiter shaft- way. When you open the door to the| | dumbwaiter in “Rats and Cats Row” minister, as well as a legislature and | cot, aside as Detroit Co-operators a politician. Week and will begin with an enter- wi tionrcae Tomorrow we will take you along to talk to Father Bi- shop himself and see what he has to say about the church as landlord. The Daily Worker has al- ready received a number of letters from tenants in Har- lem describing the conditions of their apartments and wholesale robbery. The let- ters are being published daily. Tenants are invited to write in freely to the Daily Worker. |Labor Temple, 14th and McGraw |include speakers in English and | Finnish, recitations and solos, num- bers by the Workers’ Choir, and a | Finnish Operetta, “Sorrentto,” di- reeted by John Ahti. row Wilson, corner Grand Ave. The “Week” will end with a mass pienie at the Loon Lake Co-operative Land Association Grounds, Sunday, |May 12, all day, with a full pro- | gram including speakers, choir and athletics. For the New Line of the C. 1 and CY. I. in the Building of a Mass Communist Youth League and Its Unification This is the fourth installment of statement introduced April 5th, by Comrades Williamson, Don, Frankfeld and Rijak, which was re- jected by the National Executive Committee. The convention of the Young Workers (Communist) League will open on April 26. as, at Extermination of Factionalism; Guarantee for Carrying Out CYI Line. The C.Y.I. in its Open Letter and subsequent letters to our League outlined decisive measures and laid the basis for the correction of the | wrong line of the League ‘and the mobilization of the League against the Right danger and factionalism in the Party and League. One of the main reasons for the failure to reorientate the League membership and prepare the League to take the new turn, is the stubborn resistance of the League leadership to the line of the C.Y.I. The League leader- ship mobilized the League and Party membership against the Open Letter of the C.Y.I. The Polcom statement against the C.Y.I. letter became the plat- form of struggle against the line of the C.Y.I. The C.Y.I. letter states: “the League leadership should have firmly opposed the political con- tent of the Party's appeal and fought against the sending of the appeal to the League districts. The real carrying out of the letter necessarily involved the sharp rejection of the Party’s attitude.” Furthermore the C.Y.1. in referring to the N.E.C. statement in the C.Y.I. letter states: “that we are not in agreement wih the statement which repeats many of the factional and political errors pointed out in our letter.” The failure to accept the line of the C.Y.I. and to heed the warning con- tained in it resulted in a further intensification of the factional situ- ation in the League and in the general political and organizational weakening of the League. (A paragraph is omitted here because it deals with questions now before the Comintern for review and decision.—Editor.) The C.Y.1. sent the following cable, which has never been published or sent to the League membership: “Presidium indorses completely the political line and organizational proposals of the Comintern. We ex- _ pect the League delegation and N.E.C. as well as all other bodies to _ take a definite stand and energetically support these decisions.” Double Bookkeeping and the Rejecting of the CYI Letter. ‘One of the main obstacles to mobilizing the League membership is growing menace, unparalleled in the history of the C.Y.I. of double okkeeping, unprincipledness and political corruption evident in the ie leadership. This double bookkeeping policy showed itself clearly the relations between the League leadership and the membership between the leadership and our international leadership. ile in practice carrying on the sharpest struggle against the line, it flooded the minutes with motions and statements that hay “they accept the C.Y.I. letter without reservations” and “never endorsed thé Poleom appeal.” It has been established that at the very time when these comrades were making the above mentioned motions and state- ments, a committee of the League mapority group consisting of Com- rades Zam and Kaplan met with a similar committee of the Party group (Pepper and Lovestone) to map out the strategy of mobilizing the League and Party membership to fight the C.Y.I. letter. It was decided at this meeting to instruct the League majority group to write the Poleom appeal, which was done by Comrade Kaplan and approved by the Majority group as a whole. (This has already been brought today to the attention of the League and recognized as a serious mistake and evidence of factional corruption, by Comrade Kaplan himself.) Such double bookkeeping tactics of writing the very statement, which rejects and condemns the line of the C.Y.I. letter and simultaneously making a motion to “endorse unreservedly the C.Y.I. letter and consider the Polcom statement as purely a matter between the Polcom, the ECCI and the ECCYI which the League need not take a stand on,” the League membership must decisively repudiate and express its contempt and disgust for them. In view of the above brought out facts the League membership can heartily greet and endorse the recent letter of the C.Y.I. (Feb. 15) which condemns the Polcom statement and the League Majority lead- ership for its political explanation and attitude towards the Poleom statement. This outstanding example of double bookkeeping and corruption makes it easy to understand similar cases, such as: (1) The withholding of the Open Letter of the C.Y.I. and sending Poleom appeal to D.E.C.s. (2) Failure to express a political attitude towards the C.Y.1. letter on Right danger and Trotskyism. (3) Voting for motions to appeal against all C.I. decisions at the Convention and at the same time informing the ECCYI that “N.E.C. endorsed Open Letter and CYI instructions. Accepted organizational proposals, Did nothing to contrary. Our intention utilize Open Letter and organizational proposals for basis of unity.” (4) Refusal to pring the cablegram of CYI which endorses the CI decisions. (5) Making a motion to accept the CYI letter which condemns | the Poleom statement and at same time refuse to publish the letter so as to acquaint the membership with its contents, (6) Refusal at Fifth Congress CYI by Zam to repudiate affili- ation with Party Majority group, (7) While disagreeing with and speaking and voting against in delegation meet, the new line on Negro activity, voting for the resolu- tion in the Congress without any statement as to position. This double bookkeeping policy and unprincipledness tends to make | the membership non-political and places great obstacles in the struggle against the Right danger and encourages unprincipled factionalism. (To Be Continued) |tainment and dance at the Finnish’ Aves, at 8 p.m. The program will} | Vera Buch, organizer for the left | : wing National Textile Workers’| (Continued from Page One) Union among the Pineville (near | sheriff, he was assaulted and badly Gastonia) workers striking the beaten by gangsters, Chadwick Haskins Mill Co. the re-} Toohey sent a messenger to the porter goes on to describe a recep-| sheriff before the blockade became tion, which was probably his, too tight, to ask him what he in- Kick Out Liar Agent. tended to do, and the sheriff sent “Early this morning a Charlotte|back word that the best thing for newspaper reporter arrived here to|Toohey to do was to “get out of During the “Week” free demon- | CVe? developments, and stopped at|town at once, for he doesn’t belong strations of Co-operators Red Star the home of = striker to ask for |here.” Soups and Coffee will be held at 5°™¢ information. — ‘ the Co-operative Store, 13701 Wood- he made known his business than No sooner had All Arrested. the wom f the h roceeded| The siege of the house started to tell him just what regard she|Sbout 8 p.m, and lasted until 10 in had for newspapers in general and | the evening. Taking advantage of | for him in particular. She even|® Tearrangement of the gunmen’s went so far as to demonstrate her {0Tces, Toohey and a group of feeli te the Sto) ing and|™iners slipped cut and went by car Shaking in he diseetion af punt |to Riezenville, where another meet- ticularly vicious-looking stick. | “Thinking to reconcile her, the Charlotte man, who had been stand- |ing hat in hand during the inter- | view, began explaining that the | mission of the newspapers is sim- |ply to get the news, unbiased, ac- | curate, without color.” How the strikers fell for this bunk is seen | by the way they colored him—with | appropriate yellow. Didn’t Believe Him. “It was just at this moment that someone in the group of strikers a | short way off threw an egg that | struck him where his hat had been. | Having smelled the blood of battle, the pack began assailing him sharp- things looked dangerous for the representative of the press, “Later in the day another news- paper, too, came near suffering a similar fate. ‘perience of his ill-fated brother of the profession, however, this second | scribe refused to allow himself to be drawn more than a few steps from the reassuring presence of ‘the 9 law’. —A. G. RICHMAN. to widen, to e1 existence of thi laborer-—-Kar) ‘x (Communist Manifesto), | MAY DAY PLACE YOUR 10¢ each to individuals COMMUNIST PARTY OF U. ly with sticks and for the time! Profiting by the ex-|by District Attorney Morgen of | This year will carry the slogans: —“Organize the Unorganized!” | —‘Defend the Soviet Union!” —“Fight Imperialist War” AMPLE SUPPLIES OF THESE BUTTONS SHOULD BE OR- DERED FROM THE DISTRICi’ OFFICES OF THE PARTY! PRICES: Te each to Units on orders up to 100 buttons 6c each to Units on orders over 100 buttons |ing had been scheduled for evening. | They were stopped at the enirance 0 town by coal and iron police, and vrested without any charge being made, In the group with Tochey and! jatrested with him were Charles F. | |Glose and Charles Glynn, executive | |board members of the National! Miners Union, end 12 other miners. All were released. The meeting had | been broken up before the arrival of Toohey. The chairman, Lovis |Fass, attempted to call it to order to announce the speakers had been | detained, but while he was speaking, |15 Lewis gangsters launched an at- tack on him, Fass was cut in the eye with a fragment of a beer bottle and may lose the sight of the eye. Officials Lead Gunmen. The errests were ordered directly Marion county. Leaders of the gangsters in Lib- erty were James Scuddard, presi- dent of the U. M. W. A., District 81 (West Virginia), and Secretary- Treasurer Davis of District 61, U. |M. W. A. Active among the gunmen was Mike Aileo, a notorious gang- | ster, The National Miners Union will hold further meetings in this sec- tion, and intends to break the gun- man rule here, BUTTONS ORDERS NOW! S. A.—NATIONAL OFFICE. TO THE SPECIAL MAY DAY EDITION OF THE DAILY WORKER Have your name and the names of your shop-. mates printed in the Red Honor Roll. See that your organization bas a greeting printed in the Special Edition. 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